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May 16, 2023
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A new report published last month by the office of the Representative for Children and Youth seeks to understand why hundreds of children are disappearing from the child welfare system in BC. It was written in response to the hundreds of reports coming into the Office of children missing from care, many of whom go on to experience critical injury or die. We speak with Dr. Jennifer Charlesworth is Representative for Children and Youth.
Topics: children, youth, care, missing, fleeing, injury, death, welfare, system, Indigenous
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May 15, 2023
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May 15, 2023
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A new research review examines how people with long Covid have struggled to get information about their condition. It says patients’ experiences seeking information about their symptoms can be described as frustrating, uncertain, and complex. We speak with the lead researcher of the study, Simran Purewal, who is at the Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics, and Society at Simon Fraser University and senior scientist Kaylee Byers, also from PIPPs.
Topics: long, Covid, patients, sufferers, symptoms, doctors, medical, system, information, care, health,...
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May 1, 2023
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May 1, 2023
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The last Vancouver City Council approved a plan to make Vancouver the most accessible city in the world. The new ABC majority had “best in the world” as one of their campaign promises too and wanted a quick update on the planning early on in their term. That update report was before Council this week. Redeye collective member, Ian Mass joins Lorraine Chisholm with his City Beat report to talk about the accessibility plan, along with safety for pedestrians, ongoing conflict at the School...
Topics: City, Beat, accessibility, pedestrian, safety, port, expansion, school, closures, taxes, business
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Apr 30, 2023
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The rise of the gig economy using platforms like Uber and Skip the Dishes has led to a steep rise in the prevalence of precarious work. Precarious work is not new but we don’t know just how widespread a problem it has become because Stats Canada does not collect data on it. The pilot BC Precarity survey conducted by Iglika Ivanova and Kendra Strauss aims to fill that gap. We speak with Iglika Ivanova to find out what the survey revealed.
Topics: precarious, work, standard, jobs, on-call, benefits, multiple, gig, economy, low-paid, secure,...
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Apr 30, 2023
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Apr 30, 2023
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360 Riot Walk is an immersive, self-guided 360 ° video walking tour of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver. Now, a book based on the walk adds new dimensions to our understanding of those events. The book will be launched June 30 at the Sun Yat Sen Gardens in Chinatown. We’re joined by Henry Tsang, artistic director of the tour and author of the book.
Topics: White, Riot, Anti-Asian, racism, history, Vancouver, Chinatown, walking, tour, documentary, art,...
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Apr 30, 2023
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Apr 30, 2023
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Academics from universities across Canada have issued an open letter calling for an end to the eviction of encampments in Vancouver. The letter is in response to the wholesale removal of tents along Hastings Street that took place in the first week of April. It’s addressed to the mayor and council, union and health officials plus members of the provincial government. We talk with Jeff Masuda, Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria.
Topics: unhoused, homeless, eviction, decampment, removal, tent, city, shelters, housing, crisis, police,...
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Apr 30, 2023
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Apr 30, 2023
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Hassan Diab has been entangled in a 15-year legal battle against claims he is a terrorist. Last week, the Assize Court in Paris found Dr. Diab guilty of perpetrating a 1980 bomb attack outside a synagogue in Paris. In a new trial, the French court sentenced the Ottawa academic to life in prison, despite the fact that both the Canadian and French justice systems have already found a lack of credible evidence. We speak with Alex Neve, senior fellow in the Graduate School of Public and...
Topics: Hassan, Diab, conviction, wrongful, Canadian, bomb, attack, Paris, French, court, evidence,...
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Apr 15, 2023
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Apr 15, 2023
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Eight years ago multidisciplinary artist Mark Timmings and digital media artist Brady Marks joined forces to create the Wetland Project, a soundscape focusing on a marsh beside Mark Timmings’ home on Saturna Island. Since then, Brady and Mark have produced an award-winning book about the project, and, on Earth Day this year, the sounds of the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh will be heard as far away as Paris. Brady Marks and Mark Timmings join us today to talk about the project and its ongoing...
Topics: wetland, project, sound, art, soundscape, marsh, Saturna, radio, 24-hour, broadcast, exhibition,...
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Apr 15, 2023
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Apr 15, 2023
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C-IRG is a specially trained section of the RCMP, established in 2017, who are responsible for intervening in conflicts between local communities and industry in British Columbia. By 2022, the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP had received over 500 complaints in areas where C-IRG is active. Now the CRCC has announced a systemic review of the force, but a new group says C-IRG is not reformable and should be abolished. We speak with front-line activist Molly Murphy and law...
Topics: C-IRG, community, industry, response, group, RCMP, complaints, commission, review, CRCC, police,...
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Apr 15, 2023
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Apr 15, 2023
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The Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement came into effect in 2004. Under the agreement, those applying for refugee status in either country at an official border crossing are turned back. On March 24, Justin Trudeau announced that the Safe Third Country Agreement was being expanded to apply to the entire Canada-US border, including unofficial crossings. Immigration lawyer Zool Suleman joins us to talk about the impact of this expansion.
Topics: migrants, refugee, unofficial, border, crossing, STCA, United, States, Canada, immigration,...
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Apr 15, 2023
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Apr 15, 2023
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Vancouver City Council met this week to consider the recent clearing of the Downtown Eastside tent city on Hastings Street, the sale of wine in grocery stores, a new climate change initiative and the possible sale of an elementary school on the West Side. Redeye Collective member Ian Mass joins us with his City Beat report.
Topics: tent, city, decampment, poverty, homeless, unhoused, housing, removal, climate, change, school,...
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Apr 1, 2023
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Apr 1, 2023
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Leading privacy, technology and civil liberties experts are urging Canadian Members of Parliament to vote against the federal government’s proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act which would regulate AI. Signatories to an open letter say the proposed legislation is flawed beyond repair. We speak with Tim McSorley, national coordinator of International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group.
Topics: artificial, intelligence, AI, data, privacy, technology, civil, liberties, federal, AIDA,...
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Apr 1, 2023
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Apr 1, 2023
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Involuntary treatment is currently allowed under B.C.'s Mental Health if a doctor deems it necessary for a person’s health and safety, as well as the safety of others. However, Premier David Eby is proposing to expand the system to cover people who overdose. Last week, Pivot Legal Society released a position paper responding to this move and calling for the elimination of involuntary treatment. Tyson Singh Kelsall is a social worker in the Downtown Eastside and PhD Student at SFU's...
Topics: overdose, drugs, toxic, supply, safe, involuntary, treatment, mental, health, hospital, police,...
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Apr 1, 2023
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Special rapporteur David Johnston has been tasked with assessing the extent and impact of foreign interference in Canada’s electoral processes. On March 21, academics and activists across Canada penned an open letter of caution to Johnson, warning that discussions of foreign interference and national security can quickly become toxic. We speak with John Price , professor emeritus of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and member of the Canada-China Focus Advisory Group.
Topics: China, foreign, interference, elections, Canada, rapporteur, special, national, security, racism,...
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Mar 25, 2023
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Mar 25, 2023
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In the early days of the pandemic, feminist organizations around the world called for a recovery that would respond to immediate needs and advance structural reform, ensuring a gender-just recovery for everyone. A new report takes stock of Canada’s response to the pandemic using a gender lens. A new report compares the response of the federal government with similar governments internationally, and looks at how different provinces addressed the crisis. We speak with author Katherine Scott,...
Topics: pandemic, response, gender, lens, feminist, just, recovery, crisis, violence, poverty, policy,...
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Mar 25, 2023
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Mar 25, 2023
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Ian Mass joins us with his City Beat report for March 25 to talk about bear spray, ornamental water fountains, parks and farm land becoming industrial lands, the 2022 Vancouver municipal election and the Broadway plan.
Topics: City, Beat, municipal, affairs, politics, Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, farmland, parks, fountains,...
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Mar 25, 2023
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For most Canadians, information about the world events comes via the corporate media. And while reporters may strive to be objective, the corporations who employ them often have a different agenda. This fact has a huge impact on the news we get about Israel and Palestine. A new initiative by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East aims to hold the media accountable for bias and inaccuracies in reporting on the region. We speak with Thomas Woodley, president of CJPME.
Topics: Palestine, Palestinians, inaccuracy, bias, corporate, media, lies, apartheid, misrepresentations,...
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Mar 18, 2023
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Mar 18, 2023
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Two media professionals filed a class action lawsuit against the RCMP this month for allegedly breaching their Charter rights, and the constitutional rights of hundreds of other individuals at Fairy Creek. Lawyers for the suit say it’s believed that most of the almost 1200 people arrested at Fairy Creek were released without charge. We speak with lawyer David Wu and film producer Kristy Morgan, one of the plaintiffs.
Topics: Fairy, Creek, old, growth, forests, RCMP, Charter, constitutional, rights, arrests, charges,...
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Mar 18, 2023
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Mar 18, 2023
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In March, police announced the bust of a major international labour trafficking ring in Ontario. Earlier this year, some of the workers had contacted the Toronto-based Workers’ Action Centre for help. The organization has been providing support since, alongside the Migrant Workers’ Alliance for Change. Some of the workers had been sent to work on farms, something that concerns the National Farmers Union. The NFU passed a resolution at their convention in November 2022, pledging to support...
Topics: migrant, workers, farm, undocumented, trafficking, status, farmers, NFU, immigration, labour
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Mar 11, 2023
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At the beginning of March, the annual wild salmon juvenile out-migration begins. At this moment in Clayoquot Sound, as the young fish head out to sea, they are under threat from a fish farm operated in their waters by the global corporation, Cermaq. There has been a long fight to close down offshore fish farms in BC, and recently there has been some success in closing them down. But the fight is not over, and the continued existence of wild salmon is at stake. We speak with Dan Lewis of...
Topics: fish, farms, offshore, ocean, salmon, wild, Cermaq, pollution, migration, industry, sea, lice
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Mar 11, 2023
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Niall McNeil is an accomplished artist, a lifelong performer and a person with Down syndrome. Marie Clements is a renowned Canadian writer, director and producer. Niall and Marie collaborated on the new NFB documentary Lay Down Your Heart. The film is about Niall McNeil and his family and friends. Lay Down Your Heart airs at the inaugural Down Syndrome Film Festival on March 18 in Burnaby, BC. We spoke with Niall and Marie in early March.
Topics: artist, performer, family, chosen, theatre, actor, creativity, NFB, Down, Syndrome, documentary,...
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Mar 11, 2023
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The polluters must pay. That’s the message of a new campaign to hold the fossil fuel industry to account for the mounting costs of the climate crisis. Sue Big Oil was started by West Coast Environmental Law last year, and has since been taken up by a broad coalition of advocacy groups and British Columbians. We speak with David Ravensbergen of the Council of Canadians.
Topics: Sue, Big, Oil, fossil, fuel, industry, climate, costs, crisis, flooding, fires, polluters, class,...
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Mar 11, 2023
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As B.C. continues to ramp up fracking for natural gas, we are seeing an increasing number of studies describing human health harms to those living close to this industry. Dr. Margaret McGregor is a family physician, health policy researcher and clinical associate professor with the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. She joins us today to talk about fracking and health.
Topics: fracking, health, research, mortality, birth, defects, preterm, pregnancy, gas, oil, industry,...
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Mar 4, 2023
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Mar 4, 2023
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Ian Mass joins us with his City Beat report to talk about Vancouver city council debating a staff report proposing a 9.7% tax increase, an announcement that Vancouver is selling non-market housing sites back to a developer and how Burnaby wants to convert part of a park for industrial use.
Topics: property, tax, budget, non-market, housing, developers, park, Burnaby, industrial, ABC, council,...
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Mar 4, 2023
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Mar 4, 2023
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BC’s first budget under Premier David Eby included substantial funding increases in a number of areas that will benefit British Columbians. But following a series of announcements on biodiversity, old growth, and the environment in Eby’s first months, all eyes were on the budget to match talk with money. The result was mixed, but fell short in many areas for changing course on fossil fuels and the environment, and in protecting lands, waters, and species. We speak with Torrance Coste,...
Topics: BC, budget, biodiversity, old, growth, environment, species, risk, fossil, fuels, water,...
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Mar 4, 2023
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Mar 4, 2023
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BC’s first budget under Premier David Eby was released on Tuesday. It includes funding increases in housing, health care, income supports and cost of living tax credits, and allocates a record level of investment towards capital infrastructure. To discuss both the new spending and what’s missing from the budget, I’m joined by Alex Hemingway, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office.
Topics: BC, budget, housing, health, care, tax, credits, income, supports, toxic, drug, emergency, rent,...
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Feb 25, 2023
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Feb 25, 2023
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An art exhibition in Grand Forks last summer showed gallery visitors images of Mexican temporary farm workers that don’t fit the stereotype. The men were in blue jeans, with bare torsos and holding and wearing objects that can best be described as regalia. The objects are the work of Rocio Graham, a Mexican-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Sinixt and Syilx territory, also known as Christina Lake, BC. Rocio Graham joins me to talk about how the exhibition came about and what she...
Topics: art, temporary, farm, workers, Mexican, regalia, spiritual, sacred, ritual, multidisciplinary,...
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Feb 25, 2023
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Feb 25, 2023
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Most people have the sense that health care in Canada is in crisis. Health care funding and responsibility is kicked around like a political football. Most recently, the federal-provincial health care deal put 48 billion dollars worth of new money on the table over the next 10 years. Yet the deal requires provinces to spend just 58 cents out of every new dollar on actual new health care programs while leaving the rest with no strings attached. We speak about the new deal and the crisis in...
Topics: health, care, policy, federal, provincial, funding, bilateral, deal, primary, mental, national,...
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Feb 17, 2023
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Feb 17, 2023
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Ben Parfitt says that the pending closure of a pulp mill in Prince George and the loss of 300 high-paying jobs in the community is just the beginning of what promises to be a new and painful chapter in the province’s beleaguered forest industry. Ben Parfitt is a resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Topics: forest, industry, pulp, paper, mill, closures, wood, pellet, subsidies, jobs, logging, timber,...
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Feb 17, 2023
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Feb 17, 2023
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Vancouver City planners see their missing middle housing proposals as an important opportunity to fulfil ABC Vancouver’s housing promises. Abundant Housing Vancouver calls the proposals “an extraordinary disappointment … the smallest possible increment of change…”. We speak with Peter Waldkirch of Abundant Housing Vancouver, a non-partisan group of housing advocates.
Topics: housing, Vancouver, rental, density, single, family, missing, middle, apartment, building,...
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Feb 17, 2023
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Nicole Chan was a police officer employed by the Vancouver Police Department. She was 30 years old when she died by suicide in 2019. At the time of her death she had been on leave, awaiting the conclusion of an investigation into her complaint about fellow officers. Meenakshi Mannoe of Pivot Legal Society says the coroner’s inquest into Chan’s death puts a spotlight on the VPD, emergency psychiatric services in the city and the inadequate services available to survivors of sexualized...
Topics: BC, VPD, policing, sexual, violence, abuse, sexualized, survivors, culture, institutional,...
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Feb 11, 2023
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Feb 11, 2023
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Starting January 31, the province of BC decriminalized the personal possession of certain types and amounts of drugs. But the policy does not cover some commonly used controlled substances and the amounts permitted are too small to have an impact, according to advocates and drug users. Pivot Legal and VANDU have collaborated on a Know Your Rights card to help people figure out if they are protected by the policy. I speak with Caitlin Shane, staff lawyer at Pivot Legal Society.
Topics: BC, controlled, substances, drugs, opioids, cocaine, decriminalization, possession
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Feb 11, 2023
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Feb 11, 2023
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Despite the climate crisis, 80% of new vehicles sold in Canada in the last two years were SUVs and pickup trucks, up from 55% a decade ago. A research team at SFU says the Canadian obsession with SUVs is seriously disrupting our climate goals. We speak with Zoe Long from the Sustainable Transportation Action Research Team.
Topics: SUV, pickup, truck, climate, goals, sustainable, transportation, vehicles, gas, Canada, minivans,...
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Feb 11, 2023
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Colonialism and systemic racism are embedded in Vancouver’s bylaws. A motion before Vancouver Council wants to take a deep dive into these bylaws using an equity lens. Council will also consider a climate justice charter written by people with lived experiences of systemic inequities. Ian Mass joins us with this week’s episode of City Beat.
Topics: systemic, racism, colonialism, bylaws, equity, lens, climate, justice, housing, missing, middle
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Feb 5, 2023
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Feb 5, 2023
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We are probably all familiar with the letter-writing campaigns of Amnesty International. Now Amnesty Canada has a new podcast: Rights Back at You. The podcast aims to unravel the Canada you think you know and challenge the systems that hold back human rights. The podcast launched February 1 with an episode on facial recognition and policing protest. We talk with the host of Rights Back at You, Daniella Barreto.
Topics: Amnesty, Canada, Rights, human, podcast, facial, recognition, surveillance, police, protest,...
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Feb 5, 2023
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Feb 5, 2023
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The 45-year old Vancouver Folk Music Festival is a much-loved event for music fans and an important showcase for musicians. So it came as a shock when the festival’s board announced two weeks ago that the 2023 festival had been cancelled and they wanted members to vote to dissolve the society. Following a groundswell of support, the board postponed the AGM and held an open meeting to discuss the festival’s future. Ian Mass was at the meeting and brings us a report.
Topics: Vancouver, Folk, Music, Festival, musicians, event, sponsorship, members, Jericho, supporters,...
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Feb 5, 2023
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In a small Indian village, Ranjit wakes up to find that his 13-year-old daughter has not returned home from a family wedding. A few hours later, she’s found stumbling home. She had been dragged into the woods and raped by three men, all known to the family. Ranjit and his wife go to the police, and the men are arrested. The new documentary, To Kill a Tiger, follows Ranjit’s uphill battle to find justice for his child.
Topics: India, masculinity, violence, women, justice, equality, gender, rights, documentary, NFB, film
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Jan 28, 2023
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There has been a rapid increase in Canadian university tuition fees, creating a barrier for low-income students and widening the gap between privileged students and those who struggle to pay for their studies. Grace Barakat is a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto. She talks with us about how changes in the cost of tuition are having an impact on Canadian students and their futures.
Topics: tuition, fees, university, college, post-secondary, gap, costs, privilege, students, professional,...
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Jan 28, 2023
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Jan 28, 2023
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There has been a rapid increase in Canadian university tuition fees, creating a barrier for low-income students and widening the gap between privileged students and those who struggle to pay for their studies. Grace Barakat is a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto. She talks with us about how changes in the cost of tuition are having an impact on Canadian students and their futures.
Topics: tuition, fees, university, college, post-secondary, gap, costs, privilege, students, professional,...
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Jan 28, 2023
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Canada’s drug prices are the fourth highest in the developed world. New guidelines aimed at lowering prescription drug prices have been in process for more than 2 years, and have met with intense pressure by the industry lobby group, Innovative Medicines Canada. Dr. Joel Lexchin examines the lies and half-truths put out by IMC. Lexchin is Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management at York University.
Topics: IMC, lobby, group, drug, policy, Canada, prices, guidelines, Big, Pharma, pharmaceutical, industry,...
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Jan 28, 2023
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Jan 28, 2023
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Ian Mass joins us with City Beat to talk about Indigenous-led supportive housing, a business-friendly mayor, fires in Downtown Eastside hotels, the demise of Vancouver’s Renter Office and increasing the supply of renewable energy.
Topics: City, Beat, Indigenous-led, supportive, housing, Renter, Office, business-friendly, fires, DTES,...
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Jan 22, 2023
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A new report by Women Transforming Cities looks at ways to speed up implementation of TRC calls to action within municipalities. As almost 80% of Indigenous people in BC live, work, and study in urban and off-reserve areas, municipalities play a big role in fostering Indigenous relations. Yet, researchers found that almost half of municipalities identified a lack of knowledge and understanding about the calls to action and saw it as a substantial challenge to implement them. Clara Prager is one...
Topics: Truth, Reconciliation, Commission, TRC, calls, action, implementation, municipalities, Indigenous,...
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Jan 22, 2023
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British Columbia is awash in housing announcements and plans. A rental protection fund designed to thwart real estate investment trusts, one stop shopping for provincial housing permits, a refreshed 10-year housing supply plan, a promised BC Builds plan and a brand new housing ministry. Economist Alex Hemingway joins us to help us figure out if all these plans will change the game on housing in BC.
Topics: housing, British, Columbia, Eby, supply, BC, builds, rental, protection, REITs, permits,...
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Jan 22, 2023
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When Pedro Castillo was elected president of Peru in April 2021, he embodied the hopes of millions of rural, Black and Indigenous peoples. Following more than 18 months of opposition from Congress and the Peruvian elite, Castillo was impeached and jailed after he attempted to rule by emergency poweres. Protests against the arrest have been met with lethal force by the police and the army. As many as 50 people have been killed and over 600 wounded. Meanwhile the Canadian government has sided...
Topics: Peru, Castillo, Boluarte, coup, US, foreign, mining, interests, Canada, Lima, protests, massacre
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Jan 17, 2023
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Vancouver parks board threatens to turbocharge commercialization of parks and city council plans for urgent measures to uplift Chinatown and increased support for renters. Ian Mass has these stories and more in this week’s City Beat.
Topics: Parks, revenue, commercialization, Chinatown, revitalization, City, Beat, renters, climate, energy,...
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Jan 17, 2023
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On the final day of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal in December, 196 countries reached a new global agreement to stem the stunning loss of biodiversity worldwide. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework promises key commitments to halt extinction while recognizing Indigenous People’s rights and title. Charlotte Dawe is Conservation and Policy Campaigner with the Wilderness Committee. She was in Montreal and joins us to share her perspective on what was achieved and what...
Topics: biodiversity, Montreal, UN, global. framework, nature, Indigenous, extinction, corporations,...
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Jan 10, 2023
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Millions of Canadians do not have dental coverage, with 1 in 5 children and over half of seniors without access to regular dental care. A forthcoming book by Nova Scotia dentist Brandon Doucet highlights how Canada’s current dental care system is inconsistent with the primary purpose of the Canada Health Act. Doucet is founder of Coalition for Dentalcare. He joins us to talk about the urgent need for full universal dental care.
Topics: dental, care, dentistry, health, universal, children, seniors, disease, prevention, mental, coverage
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Jan 10, 2023
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Jan 10, 2023
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City Beat reporter Ian Mass joins us with his regular City Beat report to talk about the year ahead in politics for Vancouver City Council and Metro Vancouver, from police and public safety to affordable housing and budget shortfalls.
Topics: City, Beat, Vancouver, municipal, politics, affordable, housing, budget, shortfalls, school,...
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Jan 10, 2023
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By 9:43am on January 3, many of the 100 highest-paid CEOs in Canada had made as much money as the average Canadian worker makes in a year, close to $59,000. New data from 2021 shows that top CEOs broke every compensation record on the books that year. We speak with David Macdonald, author of Breakfast of Champions, a new report on CEO pay.
Topics: income, wealth, inequality, CEO, pay, gap, tax, corporate, Canada, stock, option, marginal, rate,...
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Dec 23, 2022
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Late last year, the Gitxaala First Nation filed a judicial review in BC Supreme Court. The First Nation is challenging BC’s Mineral Tenure Act. The act currently allows anyone to get mineral rights just about anywhere in the province. Redeye’s James Mainguy spoke recently with Chief Matthew Hill, hereditary Chief of the Gitxaala First Nation, along with Ruben Tillman, one of the legal team representing the First Nation in BC Supreme Court.
Topics: mineral, tenure, act, BC, British, Columbia, mining, court, challenge, judicial, review, Gitxaala,...
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Dec 23, 2022
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Michael Bueckert is one of three delegates who just returned from a 2-week trip to the occupied Palestinian Territories and Palestinian communities within Israel. The three are all members of different Canadian organizations working to support Palestinian human rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Michael Bueckert is Vice-President of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East and author of a report on the trip.
Topics: Occupied, Palestinians, Territories, Israel, human, rights, Canadians, justice, peace, middle,...
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Dec 22, 2022
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The BC government under Premier David Eby has signaled new directions on protecting BC lands. They have committed to protect 30 per cent of the province’s land by 2030. This includes a mandate to work with Indigenous communities to create Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas. We talk about the new commitment with Torrance Coste, National Campaign Director for the Wilderness Committee.
Topics: BC, Eby, protection, Indigenous, Conserved, conservation, biodiversity, ecological, mandate,...
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Dec 13, 2022
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On November 23, the BC government released its 2022 Climate Change Accountability Report revealing that the province is on course to miss two near-term climate targets in 2025 and 2030. The government projects that it will miss the first target by 15% and the second one by at least 35%. Peter McCartney of the Wilderness Committee joins me to talk about the report and the role of LNG in preventing the province from meeting its climate commitments.
Topics: LNG, Liquified, Natural, Gas, climate, commitments, targets, crisis, change, BC, industry,...
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Dec 13, 2022
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BC Premier David Eby recently introduced new policies to build new homes, reduce rental vacancies and open up strata housing for renters. Dr. Elliot Rossiter says these actions alone won’t solve the housing crisis and that what’s needed is a truly progressive approach to the problem. Elliot Rossiter is a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Douglas College, where he is working on a multi-year project on housing justice supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research...
Topics: housing, crisis, supply, filtering, displacement, renoviction, homelessness, under-housed,...
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Dec 13, 2022
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When the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was presented in Parliament in June 2015, the Commission said the residential school system was a form of cultural genocide. The Canadian government did not take that recognition any further. However, on October 27 this year, a motion calling on the government to recognize Canada's Indian residential schools as genocide passed unanimously in the House of Commons. We speak with Leah Gazan, NDP MP for Winnipeg Centre, who...
Topics: genocide, Indian, residential, schools, truth, reconciliation, commission, cultural, federal,...
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Dec 5, 2022
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Dec 5, 2022
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Canadian Blood Services has signed a 15-year deal with a for-profit plasma corporation to privatize plasma collection in Canada. BloodWatch says the paid plasma scheme goes against recommendations from the Krever Commission and would negatively affect voluntary collection efforts. We speak with Dr. Michèle Brill-Edwards, a former senior Health Canada regulator and whistle-blower on drug and blood safety. Dr. Brill-Edwards is a long-time board member of the Canadian Health Coalition.
Topics: blood, safety, services, Canada, Krever, Commission, collection, donors, plasma, privatization,...
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Dec 5, 2022
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People with Indian Status cards face stigma and discrimination on a daily basis when they show their cards at stores or to officials, according to a landmark study commissioned by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. The report is titled They Sigh or They Give You the Look: Discrimination and Status Card Usage. We speak with Harmony Johnson, sɛƛakəs, from the Tla’amin Nation, who is the lead author of the report.
Topics: discrimination, racism. Indian, status, card, usage, study, survey, BC, media, identity, federal,...
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Dec 5, 2022
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Ian Mass joins us with his City Beat report, looking ahead to the 2023 budget discussion as council tries to square a 4% increase in the cost of policing with just a 5% increase in property taxes. He also talks about the Vancouver School Board vote on bringing back cops in schools, a motion to fast-track non-market housing and a plan to make Vancouver a more age-friendly city.
Topics: City, Beat, budget, 2023, cops, school, body, worn, cameras, taxes, VSB, VPD, police, liaison,...
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Nov 21, 2022
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For far too long, manufacturing giants have exploited Canadian consumers by making their products increasingly expensive and challenging to repair through restrictive warranties, software locks, and restrictions on access to spare parts and manuals, forcing people to replace their products more often. Now there’s a private member’s bill before Parliament to give consumers the ‘right to repair’. We talk about the issue and the bill with Matt Hatfield of Open Media.
Topics: electronics, repair, right, consumer, protection, devices, cell, phones, e-waste, costs, inflation,...
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Nov 20, 2022
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Roger Emsley has been watching and commenting on a Vancouver Port Authority proposal to expand the Roberts Bank coal and container terminal since 2013. Finally, after almost 10 years, the public may have the answer next month. Roger Emsley joins me to talk about the major threats to biodiversity that the project represents and the pending announcement.
Topics: Deltaport, biodiversity, port, Vancouver, expansion, biofilm, orcas, birds, coal, container,...
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Nov 20, 2022
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Jim Stanford is Director of the Centre for Future Work and is one of Canada’s best-known economic commentators. The webinar “Pick your poison: inflation, recession…or both” was organized by The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Stanford breaks down the factors that have led to current inflationary crisis and how the Bank of Canada is risking an avoidable and painful recession by just raising interest rates and not looking at the factors that got us here. We bring you his...
Topics: inflation, recession, workers, labour, wages, Bank, Canada, interest, rates, economy, crisis
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Nov 20, 2022
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The Living Wage is the hourly rate that a family of four needs to live modestly in BC. It has been calculated every year since 2008. This year’s report was released two days ago and it shows that, for the first time in a decade and a half, the living wage has significantly increased, driven by a spike in the cost of food and shelter. The rate was calculated in 22 communities across BC this year. We talk with Anastasia French, Provincial Manager of Living Wage for Families BC.
Topics: living, wage, minimum, families, rent, food, shelter, inflation, renoviction, BC, Victoria,...
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Nov 20, 2022
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The UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal – COP 15 – starts in December. Countries from around the world are expected to agree on a biodiversity framework. The federal government has called on the provinces and territories to help meet the key goal of the biodiversity conference: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and achieve its full recovery by 2050. However, a new independent audit by biologist Jared Hobbs highlights huge legal gaps driving species extinction in B.C. We...
Topics: biodiversity, habitat, destruction, mapping, loss, species, risk, resource, extraction, COP15,...
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Nov 20, 2022
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In March of this year, Québec senator Rosa Galvez tabled Bill S-243, the Climate Aligned Finance Act. Her bill aims to hold governments and financial institutions to account for their actions, and halt the widespread financial backing of fossil fuels. We speak about the bill with Bruce Campbell, Senior Fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University's Centre for Free Expression.
Topics: banks, financial, institutions, climate, crisis, fossil, fuels, carbon, targets, COP27
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Nov 13, 2022
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Despite dire predictions that the pandemic would be a big blow to provincial finances, most provinces have enough funds to pay for the important programs and investments that Canadians need, according to a recent report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives national office. Here in BC, the extent of the province’s fiscal and economic latitude goes well beyond what is discussed in the national report. We speak with economist Alex Hemingway.
Topics: budget, surplus, deficit, debt, social, programs, climate, crisis, health, child, care, pandemic,...
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Nov 12, 2022
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The Superior Court of Quebec has issued a landmark decision, finding that police roadside interceptions are often based on skin colour rather than on road safety objectives. Judge Michel Yergeau ruled that the law allowing for such arbitrary detention can no longer stand. The case was brought by Joseph-Christopher Luamba, a 22 year old black Montrealer, who told the court he prepares to pull over whenever he sees a police cruiser. We speak with Laura Berger, staff lawyer with the Canadian Civil...
Topics: racial, profiling, Quebec, police, racism, prejudice, driving, CCLA, Superior, Court, roadside,...
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Nov 12, 2022
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On November 1st, a provincial committee released their report on the toxic drug supply and overdose crisis. The report contains 37 recommendations looking at everything from BC's proposed decriminalization to treatment beds. In response, nearly 60 organizations and individuals released an open letter saying the report obscures the issue of a poisoned drug supply, and recommends nothing outside of the status quo. We speak with Caitlin Shane of Pivot Legal.
Topics: poisoned, drug, supply, toxic, overdose, crisis, decriminalization, BC, government, provincial,...
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Nov 12, 2022
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City Beat reporter Ian Mass joins us to talk about the new Vancouver City Council’s first meeting. This includes a motion to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism, Chinatown, street nurses and police, who appear to want to champion social service reform in the DTES all by themselves.
Topics: police, DTES, Chinatown, IHRA, definition, Zionism, Israel, anti-Semitism, social, services
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Nov 6, 2022
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In February this year, the estimated cost of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project jumped by more than 70%. When the Trans Mountain Corporation announced the increase back in February, we were told that the government would spend no additional public money on the project. A new report by independent economist Robyn Allan says this is not the case, and that the federal government is hiding the real situation from Canadians. We speak with Eugene Kung, staff lawyer with West Coast...
Topics: Trans, Mountain, pipeline, shell, corporation, financial, viability, debt, TMX, economics,...
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Thousands of Ontario education workers hit picket lines on Nov 4 after the Ford government passed Bill 28, using the notwithstanding clause to deny workers the right to strike and imposing a contract on 55,000 CUPE members. We speak with Ryan Kelpin, PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University and research associate at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies.
Topics: Ford, Conservative, government, Ontario, notwithstanding, clause, workers, education, CUPE, strike,...
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Nov 6, 2022
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One of the first pieces of business the new Vancouver City Council will deal with is a motion from newly re-elected Councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung asking council to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism and the definition’s list of examples. City Beat reporter Ian Mass joins me to talk about that motion and other plans coming from this new city council.
Topics: IHRA, definition, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, Vancouver, council, ABC, Palestinian, rights,...
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Oct 29, 2022
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In April 2020, a group of academics in the Netherlands wrote a manifesto for a post-pandemic recovery. It proposed an approach to building economies where green and socially valuable sectors were promoted, and harmful industries like oil and gas, and even advertising, were demoted. This fledgling movement is called Degrowth. Now a new book helps bring the ideas of degrowth out for discussion. The book is The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism. We speak with one of the...
Topics: degrowth, capitalism, green, just, recovery, fair, economics, fossil, fuels, social, policy
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Oct 29, 2022
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In September, Cuban citizens at home and abroad cast their ballots in a referendum on the country’s new Families Code. The Code passed by 67%, expanding legal rights for women, children and LGBTQ+ people. The new code has been described as one of the most progressive piece of social policy in the world. Owen Schalk is a writer based in Winnipeg. He was in Cuba this spring and he joins today to talk about the new Families Code.
Topics: Families, Code, Cuba, LGBTQ+, equality, marriage, family, children, trans, rights
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Oct 29, 2022
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This week Vancouver City Council considered the final report of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Task Force. The report was developed in a partnership with Musqueam Indian Band, Squamish Nation, and Tsleil-Waututh Nation and the City of Vancouver. The task force states that the calls to action are the first of their kind in Canada and will lead to Vancouver becoming both a national and world leader in implementing a clear strategy towards UNDRIP and...
Topics: UNDRIP, implementation, strategy, Vancouver, City, Council, Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh,...
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Oct 23, 2022
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In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, seeking legal recognition of her status as an Inuk woman. In the application process, she was faced with a question she could not answer, "What was your disc number?” Her new book Kinauvit: What’s Your Name is the result of two decades of research into the Eskimo Identification System and its impact on Inuit lives. It’s also a personal account of her search for her grandmother. We speak with Dr. Norma Dunning.
Topics: disc, Inuit, system, Canada, government, Nunavut, Indigenous, relocation, colonization, naming,...
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